This is the WTF from BlueShirt Nation dot com.
Lot’s of people have been asking me what’s the goal of BlueShirt Nation. This turns out to be a hard question but one that’s really important to answer. So after thinking about it for a long time, here’s the simplest answer I can offer:
Make
It’s weird because I guess I thought the goal was the thing itself. And I suppose when I started hacking it together that was a lot of it. But back then it was just me and Steve and a few others. But now it’s getting bigger. And I think it’s cool. But I owe it to all the new members to explain WTF – What’s this for?
So, Make. Huh? Here goes. When I was a kid the best toys I had were the toys I made. Usually stuff I cobbled together from other toys (Legos) or junk I found lying around. Homemade zip lines between two trees in the back yard, cement block and two by four bike ramps or the most unaerodynamic airplane you’ve ever seen dropped like a rock, but with great expectation of flight, from the peak of a garage roof.
And the toys I remember the most are the ones I made with friends that variously resulted in the coolest bmx summer on record (1979), calloused hands and scraped elbows, or a near death experience. We reveled in our brilliance, our tenacity and our utter failure (not to mention our ability to cheat death).
We played. We made stuff. And the more of us there were, the cooler the stuff we made. More junk to cobble 
together and higher roofs to drop it off of. And the better we got at playing, the better we got at making stuff. By the time we were in high school, we made a 1962 Chevy II go over a hundred miles an hour on a lonely strip of asphalt we figured to be about a quarter mile long. But it took all of us (and our dads’ tools).
So BSN is like that. A place to play and make. With all of us playing around, and bringing our stuff to the party including the collective experience of being blueshirts , making friends and all that – what we end up with is kinda like a massively multi-processor distributed bionic computer. Capable of who knows what. Maybe capable of making stuff. Making ideas come to life. Making work more fun. Making friends. Making a mark. Making ________________.
